NEW DISCOVERIES

摘要

How does NRDC's health program keep up with the discoveries that scientists like Frederica Perera are making? Our staff is pretty heavy on scientific expertise. We have four Ph.D. scientists, a public health specialist, an expert on toxic exposures, and a chemical engineer. We're all so fascinated with these advances that we actually talk about them over lunch! Findings such as those described in this article make us even more deeply concerned about threats to the developing fetus. We've known about fetal alcohol syndrome for a long time, and we've also known that lead is most dangerous to infants and children, whose brains are still developing. Now we are realizing that even some cancers may ultimately be best understood as birth defects, traceable back to a harmful chemical exposure that set the stage for disease later in life.